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January 29, 2015

Port Wine & Cinammon Apple Cake

For wintery freezing and rainy days there's nothing better than a delicious piece of cake with big chunks of apple, a sprinkling of cinnamon and a touch of fine sweet white Port wine. It is a rather easy to bake cake that comes together in just some minutes but it looks so hearty and tastes so flavourfully that it actually seems like you've spent all morning baking it. It's a winter delight of layers of tender apples with spiced cinammon and brown sugar that makes of this delicious treat the perfect recipe to be served as dessert or a breakfast coffee cake.

Ingredients:

3 apples

1 1/2cups of sugar

2 cups f flour

1teaspoon bakingpowder

100 mlliquid butter

6 eggs

3 tablespoonscinnamon

50mlwhite Port wine

brown sugar

Peel theapples and slice some and dice others. Sprinkle withbrownsugar and cinnamonand pourwhite Port wine. Let restfor approximately 10. In a bowlputthe eggsand beatwith the sugaruntil it formsa fluffycream.Add the flourwith the baking powderandbeat again. Addtheliquid butterandbeat.Placehalf of the doughontopof the mold. Arrange theapple slices on top, but don't bury them in the dough.Cover withthe remaining batterandspreadovertheapplecubesand pourthejuice remaining from it.Finally,sprinklethe apples withborwn sugar.Take to apre-heatedoven at180°Cfor about40m.